On 20 Feb 2001, Geoff Wing wrote:

# Date: 20 Feb 2001 03:48:56 GMT
# From: Geoff Wing <mason@primenet.com.au>
# To: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: Proposed rc.d changes....
#
# Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com> typed:
# :	- Other minor optimisations (use case instead of if to
# :	  compare strings, etc)
#
# Why is that a bonus?  test/[ is builtin to /bin/sh these days (mainly
# for this reason - rc scripts) so there's no forking for it.

Case is certainly more flexible (you can't pattern-match in an if
statement).

# Regards,
# --
# Geoff Wing : <gcw@pobox.com>

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